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TED440 Leadership and Assessment

Course Description

Provides teacher candidates with classroom leadership strategies to create a classroom environment that is conducive to teaching and learning. Teacher candidates will also learn how to determine students' abilities through formative and summative assessments and to use this information to provide appropriate instructional strategies to enhance student learning.

Learning Outcomes

Create a safe and productive learning environment for all learners and for assessment of student learning.

Describe the standards of sound assessment (validity and reliability), the methods of assessment (qualitative and quantitative), the uses of assessment (formative and summative), the users of assessment (i.e., for the learner, educators, parents, and other stakeholders), the context of assessment (large-scale, classroom, and individual) and the content of assessment (cognition, affect, and behavior).

Design instructional lessons that are grade appropriate and are aligned with the state content standards and frameworks for the selected subject areas.